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Pig roast to benefit Immigrant Families Together

(Please note: In exchange for my help in promoting what I think is a worthy cause, I've received four tickets to this event.) On the final weekend afternoon of summer, Rodrigo Duarte — the proprietor of Caseiro é Bom ("homemade and good") in the Ironbound District of Newark, New Jersey — will bring a very special taste of Portugal to Long Island City, Queens. Duarte will roast a Portuguese Alentejano hog, the genetic forebear of the pata negra, and serve charcuterie made from this remarkable animal.